3 Nail Challenge Finals

My lovelies I have been terribly lax this past week or so, I appologise. It's been a busy time with organising myself ready for my last year of university.

 

Here's my manis for Edgy and Wavy

 

 

Edgy was inspired by a tutorial at Nailside

 

 

This is ELF Fluro pink, Collection 2000 Red and Barry M Blue Glitter

 

Wavy was going to be watermarble but after 3 failed attempts I just used a dotting tool to make waves

 

 

This is Ciate Bon Bon and Color Club Hot Like Lava

 

And that's the end of the challenge! I hope you've enjoyed following the challenge. I've really liked finding new inspiration from all these wonderful ladies.

 

Mateji ustvarjata

Purple Glitters

Mimi's Vanity Box

Nailing Nail Art

All Stars Could Be Brighter

Moonchild

Taya (Starts later)

Beauty By Shortylegs

Deja (A bit differently)

Imagination In Colour

Krystalmer

Colourful Bottle

Nail Crazy

The Nail Buff

Beauty By Suzi

Gin Shivers

Ina - Hysteria of Decay

aydii* - Girl With Pink Lipstick*

Nails By Tinks

Natalsie - Cats-n-nails

citygirl907 Beautiful Living blog

Manicura de Fantasia

 

The Big Bang Theory nails

I'm excited to show these. Challenged by a friend to make a Big Bang Mani I didn't think I'd pull it off. They're not perfect but it's my first time to try free hand drawing.

The inspiration came from the official facebook page cast photos.

Pinkie - Raj. Based on his shirt and sweater combo. I used NYC Yellow, ELF White and Chocolate.

Ring finger - Leonard. Based on his jacket glasses and recycle tshirt. I used Color Club Perfectly Mol-ten, Yashali Green and a black nail art pen.

Middle finger - Sheldon. Basedl on his Flash tshirt. I used ELF Red Velvet and white, NYC yellow and outlined it with a black striper.

Pointer - Howard. Based on the jumper he's wearing in the cast photo. For this I used Collection 2000 Parma Violets and the black striper.

As much as I like each one my favourite is my thumb. I wanted to represent Penny but wasn't sure how. Then it popped into my head. Whenever I think of Penny I start singing "Soft Kitty". I painted a base of Ciate Bon Bon and mixed up a grey using ELF white and some black from my striper. Using a small paintbrush I painted a kitty face. When dry I added a nose using ELF Bubblegum and added some features with the striper.

So what do you think??

Ciate Bon Bon

I finally got around to using the bottle of Ciate polish I got free with Marie Claire magazine. I was lucky enough to have the choice of all 3 colours and picked Bon Bon, mainly because I don't have anything similar.

I used a coat of 2true base coat and 2 coats of Bon Bon. I also used my tip dryer which was fab! Bon Bon is a kind of nude/lilac. With my new fascination with stamping I couldn't resist adding in some lepoard spots in Collection 2000's Purple Rain (I honestly bought this one for it's name. I adore that song).

As much as I like the polish I don't think it's realistically in my budget right now at £9 a bottle.

What do you think? Did you get a free polish?

Barry M Chameleon

Happy Hump Day! All downhill towards the weekend from here.

Firstly...

I couldn't resist. After seeing bloggers mention it I had to pick up Marie Claire to pop my Ciate cherry! I got Bon Bon as I have similar polishes to the other two but am slightly tempted to get the set! I will try it out over the weekend and share how I feel about it.

My other purchase today was Barry M's Chameleon.

Here it is pre-chameleon effect. I used 2true base coat ( that's the only thing I went to Superdrug for and came out with this as well!). On the bottle it says you must use a base. I don't know why, I assume it has something to do with the science. This is one coat of base coated with one coat of Chameleon. It looked good after one coat, I don't think it needed more and I'm not sure how it will react. Something to try next time.

It's super shiny, this is taken near my living room window.

Then the fun part! Using a dotter and just free painting, using Collection 2000 top coat.

My verdict? I'm not sure. I LOVE Barry M nail stuff, and I adore the concept. I just think that it'll take a bit more experimenting until I decide what to think. The dots and thumb stripes look good but the tip and stripe don't seem to have come out as well. Maybe more top coat needed? Again, it'll be down to experimenting.

As a student with limited funds I always think about was the product worth what I paid for it. So is chameleon worth £3.99? Yes, because when I'm having a lazy manicure day it is easy to use and with a little more practice it could be amazing